Jessica Amey
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| Full name | Jessica L. Amey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National team |  Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | November 15, 1976 Montreal, Quebec | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Butterfly, freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | University of Calgary Stanford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jessica L. Amey (born November 15, 1976) is a former competitive butterfly swimmer from Canada, who competed for her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she finished in 25th position in the 100-metre butterfly,[1] after having won the silver medal in the 4×100-metre medley relay one year earlier at the 1995 FINA Short Course World Championships, alongside Julie Howard, Lisa Flood and Shannon Shakespeare.[2]
After her career on the Canadian national team, Amey attended Stanford University, where she swam for the Stanford Cardinal swimming and diving team in NCAA and Pacific-10 Conference competition. After completing her undergraduate degree at Stanford, she graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. She was a lawyer at McCarthy Tetrault LLP in Toronto, Ontario and currently works as a Planning Law solicitor for the City of Toronto.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sports Reference profile". Sports Reference. 2014. Archived from the original on December 6, 2013. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
- ^ HistoFINA, Volumes IIIa (2008 ed) Archived 2015-04-27 at the Wayback Machine and IIIb (2008 ed) Archived 2015-07-09 at the Wayback Machine. ("HistoFINA" is FINA's self-history. Volume III is about the Short Course Worlds; part "a" contains men's statistics, part "b" women's statistics.
- ^ "Jessica Amey". Archived from the original on 2007-09-26. Retrieved 2007-03-22.
External links
[edit]- Jessica Amey at World Aquatics
- Jessica Amey at SwimRankings.net
- Jessica Amey at Olympics.com
- Jessica Amey at Olympedia
- Jessica Amey at Team Canada
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